Novell, Inc.

Scott M Clayton

A Kent Sievers

Kenny Chunwai Fung

Brian Verle Allred

Robert Scott Goodman

Lex B Barfuss

Steven T Whitehouse

David L Nuttall

Ralph Tse

Methods, systems, and data structures are provided for assigning categories to electronic mail (email). An email includes a category identification field, a sender category identification field, and a receiver category identification field. When the email is transmitted any sender assigned category identification being made by the sender is placed in the sender category identification field, and any previous value contained in the sender category identification field is moved to the category identification field and the receiver category identification field. In some embodiments, the sender category identification field and the receiver category identification field can include distribution lists associated with multiple senders and multiple receivers of the email. When the email is received any value included in the category identification field is presented with the email.

Methods, systems and data structures for assigning categories to electronic mail

Methods, systems, and data structures are provided to connect services. A local service attempts to connect with a remote service by first using an internal address for the remote service, where the internal address is used to establish a local connection between the local service and the remote service. If the internal address does not establish a connection, then an external address for the remote services is used. The external address is used to establish an external connection between the local service and the remote service. In one embodiment, a volatile memory associated with the local service is scanned initially to detect an internal or external address, which was last successfully used by the local service in establishing a connection with the remote service. In another embodiment, the internal address and the external address are updated by the remote service one the local service is connected with the remote service.

Methods, systems, and data structures to connect services

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Scott M Clayton